- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:25, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
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Espenberg
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Whitefish Maar
... that the largest maars on Earth at Espenberg (example pictured) formed when magma interacted with ice in the ground?
Improved to Good Article status by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Self-nominated at 10:00, 9 April 2020 (UTC).
- ALT1: ... that the largest maars on Earth at Espenberg (example pictured) formed when magma explosively interacted with ice in the ground?
It's a GA so it's an easy pass in all kinds of ways, except for this, Jo-Jo Eumerus: in the article I read "They form when magma interacts explosively with surrounding rocks", and later that's specified for these maars as "permafrost. But your hook has "ice in the ground", with a link to permafrost, and permafrost isn't really "ice in the ground"--it's frozen ground, really. If you can tweak that one way or another, I could easily pass it. (And while you're at it, in "The abundant ice would have produced a limited amount of water", "abundant" and "limited" seem slightly contradictory to me.) Thanks, Drmies (talk) 00:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Drmies: Oy. Well, the thing is that it explicitly takes ice in the ground to induce the explosions, not merely "frozen ground". I've added a bit of explanation on the latter. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:38, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- OK, Jo-Jo Eumerus, but that still leaves me wondering whether the piped link to "permafrost" is correct in the hook. And if you're going to consider that, maybe you can stick in "explosions" one way or another? ;) Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:02, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Drmies: Added a bit about explosions. Regarding the link, the permafrost page keeps talking about water ice dependent structures so despite the definition implying "does not necessarily contain frozen water" I think it's reasonable to say that frozen water (=ice) is a defining trait of permafrost. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:19, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Let's go with ALT1; explosions are always good. Drmies (talk) 14:28, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Drmies: Of note, I haven't done the QPQ here yet; I'll go now to get one... Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:59, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- Here is the QPQ. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- Haha thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus. Drmies (talk) 15:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- Here is the QPQ. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Drmies: Of note, I haven't done the QPQ here yet; I'll go now to get one... Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:59, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
